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Mistakes
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Perfectionists beware as hosts Andrew (Caliri Creations) and Kelly (Cocky Crocheter) talk all about mistakes. They discuss their most common mistakes as well as how they decide when to fix and when to leave them in.
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Thank you.
00:00:13
Speaker
Hello
Introduction to Mistakes in Fiber Arts
00:00:14
Speaker
everyone and welcome back to another episode of Two CCs of Fiber Arts. It's me, Kelly from Cocky Crocheter and Andrew of Caleri Creations. We're your hosts today as we are always. And today's episode, we are going to be talking about um one of our least favorite topics actually, and that is mistakes. Ooh, yes, mistakes. us Yes.
Common Knitting Errors
00:00:42
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So, Andrew, do you do you generally like making mistakes? or i'm Do I make mistakes? You know, that should be the question. Like, no, of course not. I never make mistakes. Yeah. No, I for sure make mistakes often.
00:01:01
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And i feel like... My common mistake is probably ah not paying attention to the pattern, so I end up with improper stitch count because I didn't do my increase or decrease.
00:01:14
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Or probably the most common one I run into is a dropped stitch. And then I usually realize like later, like a couple rows later, because I'm just like knitting along. And then I turn my work and then like the drop stitch becomes visible. And I'm like, oh my gosh, what are you doing down there? You need to be on the needle.
00:01:37
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Um, so, and so then it's like, I, when I noticed that I have a drop stitch, I, I drop everything and immediately pick up the stitch as soon as possible.
00:01:48
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Or I at least put like a marker in it so that it doesn't unravel further. Um, but yeah, those are like common for me. Okay, so question. So I'm, as a crocheter, I've heard of dropped stitches and everything. So how you, like, notice, like, what does a dropped stitch actually look like?
00:02:09
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Because
Fixing Dropped Stitches
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i when I've knitted, um which was so long ago, I'm like, i I don't know that I could tell when I would drop one because I was just like, this just looks okay until it doesn't. I don't know. Yeah. Well, you can really notice a drop stitch, especially if it's been, if it's dropped like pretty far down, because normally your work is like flat as knitting. And it's like, it can be harder to tell when you have textured patterns or something.
00:02:40
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But let's say you're just working in like stockinette or something. Like you might not be able to notice it right at first, but you can eventually like see that there's a loop when it should all be flat.
00:02:53
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And so then like, if I see that loop or if I see that, like my stitch count is off, then I like inspect my work to see like, okay, well, why is the stitch count off? Because I did everything it said, you know, where is that stitch?
00:03:09
Speaker
And then you can usually find it like a couple rows down and you'll see just like that little loop that should be on a needle, but it usually just like slips further and further down because ah with knitting, you can basically undo like a whole row of stitches, like all the way down without yeah unraveling the whole work.
00:03:32
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Yeah. like it's isn't it called laddering? Yes, yeah. So if you take out... Sometimes people do it on purpose too. like They'll drop one stitch all the way down and it's like meant to look that way with like the ladder in the middle.
00:03:48
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um But I'm glad that you said laddering because that's exactly the way you fix it. is like Once you find the drop stitch, then you just use a crochet hook to like work each ladder rung all the way back up.
00:04:05
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and So you have to... takes a bit of trial and error to, you know, which way does the the ladder rung need to be pulled through the loop, you know, forward or backward, to match the pattern.
00:04:17
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um But actually, drop stitches are really easy to fix. It's like a common mistake that's easy to fix if you know how. Well, thank goodness for that.
00:04:28
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Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, it happens all the time, so Well, even to expert knitters like you, like how often do you drop stitches? Not so often, um like not like dozens of times per project or anything, like maybe once or twice per project if it's a big one.
00:04:48
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For small projects, like i probably won't drop a stitch. But like on a shawl project, you know, probably would like end up dropping at least a couple along the way and panicking like, no, my stitches. Yeah.
00:05:06
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I'm picturing you doing that. Oh, my stitches. Like, all scared. Yeah. So, if you... When notice it, I just, like, stare at it, you know, because I'm, like, knitting, and then I see it, and I literally, I freeze. I'm like, oh, my goodness, I dropped stitch. Like, okay, where's the crochet hook? Like, don't move. it Nobody move. There's a mistake. Oh, my goodness.
00:05:27
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Oh my God. That's hilarious. Well, that well it doesn't sound hilarious in the moment, but I'm like picturing like like, you know how like when cats, they suddenly like jerk and they're like faces like their eyes go wide. I'm imagining that's what you kind of look like when that happens. I imagine article people. Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:47
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So what's the consequence of like not fixing that mistake? mistake
Mistakes as Artistic Choices?
00:05:51
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like can it Can it unravel if you don't fix it? or like i' Because I'm less familiar with like how ni like if you just leave that stitch dropped, does it do anything? or does it just stick? depends on where, you know? And like how many stitches you dropped.
00:06:05
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But like if I was just doing a stockinette pattern and I dropped a stitch in the middle of it, The whole work itself wouldn't unravel, but that one stitch would unravel all the way down to the bottom. So then you would have like, instead of nice neat rows that are right next to each other, you'd have like a weird gap in the middle where you could see that bar between the stitches, like all the way down. Oof.
00:06:31
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So some people, like I said, they utilize that to get like a ratted, tattered look. It's like a okay ah a style that like you can purposefully um add stitches and then knit a bunch of rows. And then where you added that stitch, you just take that like all the way back out, like 20 rows down. And since you added a stitch here, it'll be nothing. Like it'll it'll be like regular stitches and then it'll kind of split.
00:07:01
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And then there'll be like a ladder rung in between. Okay. So in that case, okay. So that's kind of like really cool. Like using ah quote unquote mistake as an actual like feature. Okay. Yeah. Right. oh That is it's pretty creative. I have don't, yeah. I don't think I've ever actually seen that before because I don't think I've ever heard of crochet mistakes turning into, well, okay, maybe not. Okay. so my guess is that one day somebody accidentally did a single crochet wrong
00:07:35
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And they were like, wait a minute, this kind of looks a little bit cool with this extra little loop that they accidentally did. And they were like, huh, it's almost like I extended it. And then it turned, voila, into the extended single crochet. Mike, have... That's, I have no idea. That is not, I have no idea how extended single crochets were originated, who originated or whatever. Yeah, I don't either. It would be funny to imagine that that was how, kind of like with the ladder thing, they were like, huh, you know, as we're fixing this like drop stitch in knitting, it actually looks kind of cool when you undo it for this ladder. What if I made that a feature? Okay. Yeah, yeah.
00:08:12
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I really do feel like that is probably how it came about. But it's interesting you brought up crochet mistakes because i feel like mistakes in knitting are pretty easy to fix. Like there are so many workarounds and it's a lot easier with knitting to access rows that are lower because you can just kind of drop one stitch back and then work like 20 rows down or something if you need to to fix something.
00:08:41
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Whereas I know with crochet, since you only have one live stitch all the time, you can't really like ladder back on your work. So what do you do if you encounter a mistake 20 rows back in your crochet? like what What would be your approach?
00:08:59
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Oh my God. Okay. Um, that is an excellent question. And actually i think that that might even impact some of like how crocheters versus knitters approach mistakes in their work. Because for me, if it's something that I noticed that was 20 rows back,
00:09:15
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in all likelihood, I'm just going to leave it alone. I'm like, it's like a glaring yeah and yeah unless it's a glaring mistake that's like impacts the overall look, um it's not worth it to me. Because you're right, it is not easy to go back, especially if it's with a yarn. that um might snag a little bit, like like a wool or something like that.
00:09:38
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It is harder to rip that thing back and then it just like kind of fuzzes and you run the risk of it getting caught everything. I run into that issue even recently on a project where I tried to unravel and the yarn was just too snaggy.
00:09:52
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And even though it it started pretty smooth. Yeah. But like after a while, it just like, screw this. I don't want to fix this mistake. Just move along. um And or, no or if it's, if it's far, if it's not too far along in a project and I feel like I don't want to try to bother with it and it is still a glaring mistake, I'll just break off the yarn and start the project new. um Oh yeah. So that's going to be what I do. Yeah. So I think if it's something like that, no, no, if it's,
00:10:20
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if it's a smooth enough yarn that ripping back doesn't seem to be a problem, like my cotton yarns, I did generally don't have that issue. Then I will go ahead and rip back 20 rows to fix it. Oh wow. Yeah.
00:10:32
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Yeah. Because to me, I'm like, the it's going to be a problem for me. If I don't fix it, I won't like it. I won't want to wear yeah it. I'm like, I need to fix this. And it's just it sucks in the moment, but I've never regretted fixing a mistake. I've never regretted frogging.
00:10:52
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because I've made it better as a result. So it's worth it in my mind to do it, I'll go ahead and do it. Yeah. But for the most part, no, I'm going to just leave it in. um Especially if it's a stitch count issue,
Creative Counting Solutions
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like I missed an increase or decrease or something like that. I'm like, nah, I'll just add it in here somewhere yes and adjust my stitch count and it'll be fine. I have no idea where I made that mistake, but it's okay. Yeah.
00:11:19
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Yeah, i I do the same with stitch counts. You know, if my count is off, to me, if I at least have the right count by the end of a section of whatever the pattern is, like let's say, ah you know, I'm doing a sweater and it's the yoke section and it says I need, I don't know, arbitrarily like 250 stitches. I don't know.
00:11:40
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But let's say i have 248. Well, I would be like, hmm, OK, well, I have one row left. I'm two stitches short. um Make one here, make one there. then yeah there you go It's basically the the same thing. um You know, as long as it doesn't interfere with like the color work or the structure.
00:12:01
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You know, if it's like a round of all knitting, well, you're not really going to be able to tell that I turned one stitch into two stitches here. And so, like, it doesn't matter. I'll just add now.
00:12:14
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Oh, and then no. come Completely agree with that. And I think... That is, and I think that what you're getting at there even is what type of mistake it is really dictates like how you approach solving it because sometimes you're just like, like a knitting, drop stitch could lead to an unraveled looking section that creates that ladder So you're like, i have to address that. Like, there's no way around it. It's going to look terrible. I hate this. So you have to address that dropped stitch. um Whereas you're something like, I just need a different number of stitches to match what I need. Then, you know, there you go. Just we'll just adjust it here, especially if it's big and it's just stuck in it or something. um Right.
00:12:57
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And ah do you feel like there are certain does like stitch designs that are more forgiving of mistakes like that? Or do you feel like pretty much you would do the same thing no matter what it is? Because i mean you mentioned like color work.
00:13:12
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So if there's a mistake in color work, do you feel like it's a little bit more obvious or do you feel like it's just the same as if it was stockinette? Okay, so with color work, like I have made mistakes in color work. like i have like I thought I knew the the pattern of the colors, so I just like went with it for like five rows. You know that that sweater that I made, the steaking sweater, the homestead?
00:13:36
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Yes, that one. That one has two rows on it Yes. That sweater has two rows of color work on it that are completely wrong. Like completely not what the pattern asked for.
00:13:52
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oh my God. Confession time. You're admitting to how many rows of that is wrong. You're going to need to point them out next time you show that sweater to anybody. Stripes. And it's literally like the stripe that's right here is like completely wrong. Not what the color work was intended to be at all.
00:14:11
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And it's inconsistent. So like one of the sleeves, wherever I started that row is fine. Perfect. Exactly how the chart describes. But then the rest of it, the whole body and the other arm are wrong. And that's just because I wasn't paying attention and I thought I knew what was happening, but I was off.
00:14:32
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um But I, so normally I'm, I may have tried to fix that. But I don't know because it was so many stitches and, you know, without looking at the chart, no one really knows what it's supposed to look like, right? so right I ended up leaving it because i had already split for the underarms, which means I already had to, it was literally like the row that's right here that goes across my chest is,
00:15:04
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it's You do that row of color work and then you section off some stitches, you bind them off, and that's going to be the underarm portion. And so it was already after I had bound off stitches and that I realized the color work was wrong.
00:15:21
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And i was already like 10 rows of stockinette of like 400 stitches in the round past that point. And so my initial thought was, OK, can ladder down and like switch the color work and make it right. And then I realized, oh, no, you can't because you already bound off the underarm.
00:15:43
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So like you would have to rip back all 4,000 stitches and then rip out the 10 row color work pattern repeat to get all the way to the base of that while also remembering to pick up these stitches that are bound off on the sleeve.
00:16:04
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So go I left it. how Long story short, I was like, well, that's what the sweater's gonna look like now. Yeah, that, okay. I think that's an excellent example of,
00:16:20
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knowing that it's like the the work it would take to fix that mistake is not worth it for the final outcome. Especially like you said, nobody else is going to see it. And I think that that's kind of an issue that I run into and I think a lot of makers do is that we're like,
00:16:39
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we're so intimately close with the project that we're working on. We
Perception of Mistakes
00:16:43
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see all these details because we're working through it and we have been staring at that same project for so long that we're just like, all we're noticing is all the mistakes.
00:16:54
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But literally you show it to anybody else and they're going look at it and just be like, that's beautiful. That looks great. I love it. They're like, what mistake are you talking about? And you point you're like, right there. Do you see where that knit stitch is next to this purl stitch? Well, it should be two knits and then a purl. Like, what is this? No one's going to notice that.
00:17:13
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No, and exactly. like you should i forget the lore behind this but i have heard that in certain cultures leaving a mistake in your work is actually good because it like if you make something completely perfect like they say when you're making something you leave a bit of your soul behind and if the project is perfect your soul will be like trapped in the project.
00:17:40
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and So leaving a mistake is a way for your soul to like escape. Or it's something like that. Have you heard about that? ah Yes. Okay. Actually, I have heard about that. i First of all, I love lore like that. I love like no anything to do with like, you know, stitch craft, witchcraft, that kind of thing. Like that that just gets me. So anything like that where there's like, you know, the old wives tales of like the stitches and not magic, like you trap things in there. So I've heard that. I think that that's like,
00:18:06
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I could be totally wrong, but I think that's like a Celtic thing. So it's like Irish, Welsh, Scottish, one of those. um I don't mean to be all dismissive. ah to be It's one of those. I am part Scottish and Irish, so like, you know, I can say these things and get away with it. It's okay. I don't think you have to defend yourself. Okay, good. I just want to make sure i don't want to offend any of our like Celtic ancestry listeners by saying like, it's whatever. But It also makes sense like a lot of those cultures share a lot of those like lore and myth and things like that. But I haven't heard that before. where It's like if you do not leave any mistakes in it, then it like, you know, will trap your soul. I think that was a great way for them to justify leaving mistakes in so that they didn't have to go back and fix all of them.
Cultural Perspectives on Imperfection
00:18:55
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But I've also, there's another one that's like, it's not the same, but they do the same thing where they're like um Persian rugs. So like weaving and things like that. If you ever have like an authentic Persian rug and by extension, any kind of like fiber craft made in like the Arab world, um they're,
00:19:15
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Like, um what was, oh, um only Allah is perfect because like in Islam, like only Allah is perfect, mankind is always imperfect. They're like, they deliberately make sure that there are mistakes in it because otherwise you are trying to say that in a hubristic way, I am like Allah because I made something perfect when, you know I myself, when I'm just a human. So they like are like, you know, mistakes are encouraged in work like that because they're like, it reminds you of your place in the world where you are imperfect.
00:19:47
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And so, you know, if you ever. Yeah. So like when you see even these elaborate, beautiful like Persian rugs and they look like they're these perfect works of art, technically they are not. There's always some mistakes in them precisely because that's so for a different reason. They also have a mistake lore in there. so when I learned about that, I was like, oh, my gosh, that's so cool. Yeah, yeah I actually like that.
00:20:11
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yeah I love that too. I'm like it, the whole like, you know, reminder of like it, it, it traps a piece of our soul in it. There's a piece of us that goes into it. It's a reminder of us as human beings. We're not meant to be perfect. We're just meant to craft and enjoy life and, you know, celebrate the beauty of imperfection. um That actually reminds me of, so like one of my sweaters, the boreas one uses a bunch of like textured stitches and things like that. And girl, the number of mistakes that are in that yoke, like I can't even tell. have no idea.
00:20:44
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But because of how random and textured it was, I was like, this is actually the easiest thing to make mistakes in. Like i can just add random stitches in as needed because it didn't detract from the pattern. And I was like, my soul is definitely free.
00:21:00
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Like this sweater in particular, my soul will not be trapped in this sweater. And I am yeah nothing like Allah when I wear this sweater. was amazing.
00:21:13
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it was it was amazing ah Yeah, that's I love that. And trust me, i have projects like that, too, where like there's an entire section that is just wrong. I mean, I i mentioned the color work one, right? But there was a time where I was working on a Stephen West project. It was like my first Stephen West project.
00:21:36
Speaker
And so I wasn't fully understanding the pattern and that. The purpose of doing the stitches the way he was doing them was to create texture. I thought okay like the whole section was supposed to be flat, like stockinette, because he was doing his like um like reverse stockinette, where you do like three stitches that show up, three rows of stitches that are stockinette, but on the back.
00:22:04
Speaker
So on the front, you get all the garter rows. okay It's hard to explain, but... It creates a bump, like a ridge. Yeah, you get the purl bumps on that side instead of the yeah knit flat. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, I'm with you. But the way it goes is like you do one row of knit stitches, I think, and then on the back you do a knit, so then the purl bump is on the front, and then it comes to the front, so you do a pearl And then you do um on the back again, you do knit. So it's like almost stockinette, but like just slightly different.
00:22:41
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So anyway, the point is when I was reading the pattern, i was like, well, wait, shouldn't it all be in stockinette? Like, why is it like this? I don't understand. Like, maybe it's a typo in the pattern.
00:22:53
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oh no It wasn't a typo in the pattern. I just was not interpreting it right. So I ended up with a whole section, which was supposed to be like a honeycomb, but it all ended up flat because I i did the whole thing in stockinette thinking like, oh oh, I understand the pattern on a deep level, but realistically it's a mistake, like a giant mistake.
Misunderstanding Patterns
00:23:18
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Um, So, I mean, that's a point too. Like you could unintentionally make a mistake thinking that you're doing what the pattern is asking for. But realistically, it's wrong.
00:23:30
Speaker
That makes sense because like I've encountered patterns that have had mistakes in them. And I myself being a pattern writer, goodness knows the number of mistakes that I have made with my numbers, especially with grading, my tech editor. Oh yeah, right.
00:23:46
Speaker
All the time. It's like, you're hurting my head with all these calculations. um But also it was like a whole, was this a mistake are you just using a lot of weird numbers kind of thing? So was like, and I and like, I think that's a mistake. I don't even know. um But sometimes you're like, well, is this a problem with the pattern or is this a problem with how you're executing it? Like, what does it look? So sometimes you're like, is it a mistake on my part or the designer's part?
00:24:12
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And in that case, you endedtraed you were like, it was actually my part, not the designer. yeah um But I have but I have actually like um there was a blanket pattern that the way that they did it. So like in crochet, when you do like any kind of puff stitches or cluster stitches, unless you have a very solid background.
00:24:33
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They're going to puff out on the opposite side that you work them. um So this blanket, the way it was designed and photographed, the puffs were all showing up on the right side.
00:24:44
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But then when you actually did them because of which row you did them on, they puffed on the wrong side. And I was trying all these ways. And I was just like, what the heck? Why is this not working? And then when I looked carefully at the photo, I noted that there were several of the puffs that were pooching the wrong way.
00:25:03
Speaker
But the the main, like they had the blanket folded over a chair displayed really nicely. And I think that they just made sure that the puff stitches were all poking out. Right. And I was like, oh this isn't right. I was like, I know well enough. I was like, I think that they needed to put these on a different row. So i ended up like adding an extra row just as a buffer to get the puffs to go on the opposite row so that they see the correct way. It was I was just like, why was this not something that was recognized where it's like these puff stitches are all puffing out on the wrong side? um Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:41
Speaker
So I had to do kind of like a little redesign of like a published book pattern. oh wow. Yeah. Yeah, i well, I think that's a creative way to get past something that is like a a mistake in the pattern, you know, and like you put your own spin on it.
00:26:00
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And I think with mistakes in general, that's what I actually like about mistakes is that, you know, you might make a mistake for whatever that pattern is, but, you know, one, it might not be noticeable. Two, maybe it inspires you to be like, oh, that actually looks cool. Like, you know, that drop stitch thing I was talking about earlier. yeah Like someone was inspired by a mistake and then was able to turn it into something else.
00:26:25
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But I know so many people get bogged down with mistakes. And I'm gonna took a comment on this Reddit post that I saw like a year ago or something, which was insane. Oh, that sounds good. Okay.
00:26:39
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So this person was working on a cabled sweater or something like that. And she, like, it looked very beautiful. I had a hard time even finding where the mistake was.
00:26:51
Speaker
She had
Efforts in Correcting Errors
00:26:52
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a picture of it with like a circle, but I was like, what am I looking at in this circle? I literally had to go to the comments to see what people were even saying the mistake was. So what happened is like on the side panel, something happened, I guess, when she did her increases or something, but instead of the cable being like a one wrap per one wrap, you know what I mean? Like a one overlocking cable.
00:27:20
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the yeah The whole pattern was like that except for one section that had for some reason one wrap on the right side and two wraps on the left side just for one cable. Okay, I don't know what happened there.
00:27:34
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But um she was like, I don't know if I should rip it out or if it's fine. Like, I hate mistakes. Like, I don't know if I'll be able to sleep at night or i don't know. I'm like ad-libbing a bit. But she said, I am i am um polishing this story a bit. But this is how I remember it, OK?
00:27:55
Speaker
So she showed it on one side. And then later, she commented that she made the exact same mistake on the other side. And it looked identical. And so I was of the mindset of like, girl, you're good. Just leave it.
00:28:09
Speaker
Nobody is going to notice it. Like I have done cabled projects. I'm an advanced knitter. I didn't see anything wrong with it. but she ended up ripping out. And okay, the mistake, let's like here on like the mid rib portion, she was all the way up here. i It must have been 40 rows.
00:28:30
Speaker
But let me tell you, she didn't rip out all the way. She laddered down an entire cable section of like 30 40 stitches.
00:28:41
Speaker
down 40 rows and reworked all of it while it was still on the needles for both sides and she posted a picture of it i'm not even kidding it just looked like ramen noodles like i don't even know how she was able to go all the way down pick up all the stitches and maintain the cable pattern I was like, girl it was the same on both sides. You should have just left it. no one would notice.
00:29:14
Speaker
so that sounds to me like one of those instances where the work was way more... than the result. And to me, I'm like, yeah, that I think that that just like is a different mindset of like, I even if the mistake is identical, even if it looks fine, even if most people are not going to notice this, they themselves have that like very perfectionist mindset where they're like, they can't, like you said, They literally will stay up at night thinking about that two cross cable on both sides and think, this is, I can't deal with that. I can't. um And I'm sitting there being like, girl, it's fine.
00:29:53
Speaker
It looks great. um I did an entire blanket with a cable and all the cables are wrong because they were supposed to have like one cross this way on one side. And then on the other side, crossed this way. But in crochet cables, it's harder to do like the,
00:30:12
Speaker
forget which one it is but basically it's like it's easier to do one because you're crossing in front so you just reach your hook in front and grab whereas when you do the one behind you have to go behind the stitches you just worked and then try to grab from it's a little bit harder well i wasn't yeah advanced enough to know how to do that so i just basically did them all the same so every cable looked exactly the same instead of having that like switch around but i was like you know what I don't care. Like, I didn't even notice that I had made a different mistake. But I was like, the fact that she had that for that one part, that, no, I couldn't. And so how did it, like, did it look fine afterwards? Or did it look, she how did it look? I mean, she fixed it.
00:30:58
Speaker
So, like, I mean, but the thing is, like, the mistake in the beginning was so hard to notice in the first place that at the end, I'm like, okay, well, you fixed it. But, like, kind of looks the same to me as you had before.
00:31:13
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At what cost in time? Yeah. Like think of what you could have also knitted in that time. Right. Like an additional project you could have started. God, no. No, thank know. Yeah.
00:31:26
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No, it's too much. And I mean, i will say, like, i I am coming into an era of knitting and crochet where, kind of like what you said earlier, like, I don't want to look back and regret not fixing the mistake.
00:31:38
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So I am trying to put in more effort into, like, if I notice a mistake and I know that I can fix it, well, okay, then I should. Because let's try and have it as as good as possible.
00:31:51
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But for something like that, if it's a a slight mistake, and you also said it perfectly when you're like, it's about the amount of work it takes to fix the mistake compared to how noticeable the mistake is in the first place.
00:32:05
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So it's like a cost benefit you know analysis, really. Yeah. I mean, and I think that that's going to be true of any part of like fiber arts where like you're spinning, you're weaving, things like that. You crochet, knit, tap, like null bind, all of those.
00:32:23
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There's going to be times when you just, you're not paying attention to something. You think you do something right. And you just, you don't like we're human beings. Like ah as a reminder, we make errors. And so you just have to decide for yourself, like, what is it worth?
00:32:38
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And what is it not? And i will even say like there are some times when ah the same mistake will be worth it to me to fix in one project, but not in another project. So like in that sweater, for example, I was talking about, I was like, I made way more mistakes in that than in one where it's like, I'm working on some gloves right now using some really fine yarn, but because that's made with like a very flat, smooth stitch and it's a small project, that one I'm being very careful that any mistakes that I'm making, I am going back and fixing. or trying my best to fix them. So to me, I'm like, both of them use like similar stitch patterns, but one was more textured and one was less, but like the smaller project, I was more willing to try to be like, I can take the time to fix a mistake in the small project. But in one of my bigger projects, I'm like, no, no, I'm not going to do that.
00:33:30
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I totally agree. And that also speaks to like how noticeable the mistake is like, ah You know, a mistake on those gloves that you're making is going to pop out way more than on like a giant sweater where you could look anywhere.
00:33:46
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You know, like
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00:33:47
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the eyes could go all over the project versus like the glove. Like you're going to be staring right at it and seeing the mistake. So it makes sense to like take the time and fix that because, you know, it's going to pop out.
00:34:01
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And I think that what you're saying about that is true because, I mean, with the gloves, you're right. Like, if you you can see that mistake. But, like, what you were talking about with that one maker, that mistake was in the arm underarm panel. Like, you were seeing it. You were not going to see that. So, like, if it was in... the front. like If it was a prominent mistake true in the front cable, that makes more sense because it's right there. Everybody's going to be seeing that. But under an arm, no. I make so many mistakes and mistakes in underarm sections. I'm like, yeah just flub it. Just get it to work the way that you need it to. Yeah. yeah
00:34:39
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That's the perfect place to just be like, well, I don't know how to do whatever I'm doing. Like, I'll just do whatever and no one's ever going to see it. so Yes, exactly. Yes. Oh, my God.
00:34:51
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Well, I think we have spent quite a bit of time talking about mistakes. um So, yeah, I think now is a great time to bring in you know, our listeners, if any of you would like to talk about yeah like, you know, some mistakes you've made, some fun ones that you've left in or ones that you spent time fixing. Um, what is your approach when you see a mistake in your work? We'd love to hear from you like in the comments. Um, so definitely make sure that you're letting us know because we want to be able to see like how our listeners, uh, handle mistakes themselves.
00:35:22
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Yeah, totally. And I would just say this is also like a PSA for people out there doing fiber arts. Like mistakes don't mean that your project sucks. Like you can live with a mistake and making mistakes is just part of making art, which this is all art that we're making. So just a PSA, you know, if you make a mistake, it's not the end of the world. Your project doesn't suck. You're not a bad artist. Like all of that, it will be fine, even if you leave it.
00:35:53
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